TR's Square Deal

1. How did Roosevelt create the modern presidency?

He thought that the government should take control of states' problems when the states themselves couldn't deal with them. Also, he started to do his hobbies, such as boxing, in the white house. The Roosevelt administration also made "various progressive reforms" which came to be known as the Square Deal.

2. How did Roosevelt's intervention in a coal strike set a precedent for federal arbitration?

After Roosevelt's intervention in a coal strike the people started to expect the federal government to intervene whenever there was a strike because they saw how peacefully and orginized a settlement can be between the workers and employeers; that's what set the precedent for federal arbitration.

3. What did Roosevelt do to the trusts and railroads?

For the trusts Roosevelt filed forty-four suits and won some and broke up some trusts, but that still didn't slow the merger movement in business. Roosevelt helped pass the Elkins act which made it illegal for railroad officials to give and shippers to recieve rebates for using particular railroads, and it also said that the railroads couldn't change their rates without notifying the public.

4. What legislation passed during Roosevelt's presidency protected citizens?

The Meat Inspection Act passed during Roosevelt's presideny that protected citizens from uncleansiness in the factories and from bad meat. The act made the workers in the meat factories and the factories be as clean as a whistle, and the meat had to be inspected so it didn't contain any diseases and etcetera.

5. What did Roosevelt do to protect the environment?

Roosevelt preserved 148 million acres of forest reserve, 1.5 million acres of water-power sites, 80 million acres of land, and established more that 50 wildlife sanctuaries and several national parks. He did this though partially to make areas of dry soil to be able to be apart of agriculture.